Check out this big guy! He is a tomato hornworm or the caterpillar phase of the Hummingbird Moth, which are way cool when you see them. They really do look like (and as big as) a hummingbird. It is in the Order Lepidoptera, family Sphingidae, genus and species Manduca sexta. This guy was about 2 […]
This has been another crazy week of non-stop activity, obligations, events… No time in the garden and I’m exhausted. I did manage to make a few finds, though. It’s too dark to get pictures now, but I will try to take some this weekend and get them up. OK… so here is this week’s list: […]
Santolina (Santolina chamaecyparissus) is also called Lavender Cotton and is originally from Europe. It is actually an herb that is evergreen in my garden but would be perennial further north. It’s hard to tell in this picture, but the foliage is actually a silver/grey and the flower and foliage both hold up will for cutting. […]
Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. ~The Koran — Weather When Posted –Temperature: 80°F;Humidity: 37%;Heat Index: 80°F;Wind Chill: 80°F;Pressure: 29.95 in.;
It’s really not that hard. All you have to do is fill a container about half way with compost and then fill it the rest of the way with water. Then just let it sit. And sit… After a couple of weeks, you can dilute it to spray on your plants as a foliar feed. […]
Oh good grief! I just can’t catch up! I barely got anything done in May off my list of chores so most of it will have to carry over to June. I am, however, calling in extra troops – I’m going to have 1-2-Tree to limb up and thin all the trees. That will be […]
John and I spent our anniversary together today (or at least a few hours of it) at the Dallas Arboretum. Believe it or not, I had never been there. We will have to go back (with a bottle of wine?) and spend a lot longer! — Weather When Posted –Temperature: 66°F;Humidity: 81%;Heat Index: 66°F;Wind Chill: […]
I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I’ll never see a tree at all. – Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1933 — Weather When Posted –Temperature: 71°F;Humidity: 70%;Heat Index: 74°F;Wind Chill: 71°F;Pressure: 30.01 in.;
Ajania (Chrysanthemum pacifica) is a really neat type of chrysanthemum that is grown for it’s folliage rather than for its flower. It is a low mounding perennial (almost evergreen in my yard) for full sun that is very drought tolerant. It does have small yellow flowers in the late summer summer or early fall, but […]
I have a beautiful rose that someone had given me a couple of years ago that is just now mature enough to bloom and I have no idea what it is. It looks like “Nearly Wild” but it has a climbing habit rather than bush. It is incredibly disease resistant and has a lovely sweet […]
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